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- noun A
crystalline organophosphate insecticide thatinhibits acetylcholinesterase .
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- noun a common organophosphate insecticide
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Examples
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One of the worst offenders is called chlorpyrifos, a known neurotoxin and carcinogen.
Richard Schiffman: An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Here's the Latest! Richard Schiffman 2012
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One of the worst offenders is called chlorpyrifos, a known neurotoxin and carcinogen.
Richard Schiffman: An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Here's the Latest! Richard Schiffman 2012
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One of the worst offenders is called chlorpyrifos, a known neurotoxin and carcinogen.
Richard Schiffman: An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Here's the Latest! Richard Schiffman 2012
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Other non-persistent insecticides such as chlorpyrifos and carbofuran are not recommended due to severe phytotoxic effects.
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Studies have been carried out on the use of IGRs combined with conventional insecticides such as chlorpyrifos-methyl and fenitrothion.
Chapter 7 1994
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This pesticide, marketed by Dow Chemical, was banned by the EPA, then quietly reauthorized during 2007 as a result of industry pressure, despite the fact that the EPA's own scientists acknowledged that children were particularly at risk for getting sick from exposure to chlorpyrifos.
Richard Schiffman: An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Here's the Latest! Richard Schiffman 2012
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• EPA also canceled the use of chlorpyrifos on tomatoes and restricted the use on apples.
Donald Carr: Taxpayers Funding Pro-Pesticide PR Campaign Donald Carr 2010
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This pesticide, marketed by Dow Chemical, was banned by the EPA, then quietly reauthorized during 2007 as a result of industry pressure, despite the fact that the EPA's own scientists acknowledged that children were particularly at risk for getting sick from exposure to chlorpyrifos.
Richard Schiffman: An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Here's the Latest! Richard Schiffman 2012
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This pesticide, marketed by Dow Chemical, was banned by the EPA, then quietly reauthorized during 2007 as a result of industry pressure, despite the fact that the EPA's own scientists acknowledged that children were particularly at risk for getting sick from exposure to chlorpyrifos.
Richard Schiffman: An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Here's the Latest! Richard Schiffman 2012
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to try to force the agency to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos ….
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